Reclining Tuesday Buddha – Cast Bronze, 8" x 20"

Reclining Tuesday Buddha – Cast Bronze, 8" x 20"

The Tuesday image in the Thai weekday set is the Buddha lying on the right side—Pang Sai Yat, the passing into Nirvana. Head on the hand, body stretched along a low couch. This cast bronze figure is about 8 inches tall and 20 inches long, so it wants a deep shelf or altar table, not a narrow ledge.

Thai foundries cast it in lost wax: a wax reclining figure, clay mold, fire to lose the wax, pour bronze, break the shell, finish the robe and face. The metal is bronze (older labels said brass). That mass is why it sits differently from hollow resin reclining Buddhas.

Tuesday-born families in Thailand and Laos often keep this posture at home. The pose recalls the last hours at Kusinara and the great reclining image at Wat Pho in Bangkok. That is devotion and memory, not a promise of fortune.

Dust with a dry cloth. Give it length in front so the full twenty inches show.

A low, long bronze for Tuesday, or for anyone who wants the reclining Nirvana Buddha at a size that reads as sculpture, not a pocket charm.